Word: draft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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None of the three will try his hand as a free agent. As Frisbie put it last fall, "If they draft me, fine. But I'm not going to pursue it if they don't. I'm not sure it matters that much to me." Not exactly the right attitude for a free agent to have in a pro football training camp. Maybe the pros are wary of the Ivy League psyche. Not enough frothing at the mouth. No desire to get out there and just annihilate the guy across the line of scrimmage. For what it's worth...
...another big year in the draft whizzes by for the Ivies-four players out of 408 choices...
...small, neutral, underdeveloped country that recognizes Peking, who has kept on reasonably good terms with both superpowers, and who reflects what one diplomat calls "a comfortable level of mediocrity." As a result, some believe that for the second straight time U Thant may find it impossible to resist a draft. . . . Thant's sense of futility about his job is not difficult to understand. Last week Egypt made headlines by revealing that it will not at present demand a U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss the Middle East. Israel and the U.S. greeted the decision with relief...
...little more than two months on the job, Mardian's presence has rejuvenated the long moribund division that faded from public view after its heyday hunting Communists during the McCarthy era. With an expanded staff of 49 lawyers, Mardian will prosecute draft resisters and continue to investigate groups ranging from the Weathermen to the Jewish Defense League. According to his close friend, Deputy Attorney General Richard Kleindienst, Mardian is "a prodigious worker, brilliant lawyer and great believer in America. He knows what freedom...
Mardian helped draft the Nixon Administration's famous 1969 memo that effectively relaxed desegregation dead lines in Southern states. He is convinced that his Southern strategy avoided violence and white flight to the suburbs. The payoff, he argues, is that 92% of the region's black pupils are in desegregated school systems, compared with 6% two years before...